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Re-Discover Your Passions
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How to Recharge Your Life with the Source for Continuous Motivation
Passion is an essential ingredient for success. In the midst of the busyness of life and the many activities that clutter our lives, we need to dig deep to re-discover those things that inspire us.
Life is too short to live all stressed out without doing the things you love the most.
Here are a few tips to help you re-discover your passions.
Thomas Anderson, in his book titled Becoming a Millionaire God’s Way, explains: “Passion is directly related to the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Faith Words, 2008, page 39). When it comes to business, Donald Trump suggests, “Don’t think about how you can make money. Instead think about what you can produce or what service you can offer that is valuable and useful to people and to your community.” (Donald Trump, Think Big, Collins Business, 2007, page 43).
To discover your passions, you may want to start by asking yourself these questions:
- What motivates me?
- What things make me smile?
- What do I enjoy reading and why?
- Who do I enjoy listening to and why?
- Who are my heroes in my life and why?
- What do I know about the great achievers?
- Have I written down my lifetime dreams and goals?
- What are three things that I want to accomplish before I die?
- What are three things that I want to accomplish this year?
- What am I doing this month, this week, today towards the achievement of my lifetime goals?
- Do I clearly know my gifts, natural talents and abilities?
- What am I doing to perfect my gifting and talents?
- What am I doing to develop my personal growth?
- Who are the people I currently admire and what is it about them that capture my attention?
- Who are my mentors and why?
- What books inspire me the most?
- What are three things I need to improve in the next three months?
- What do I want to accomplish in the next month? Three months? Six months? Twelve months?
- What do my friends and co-workers say about me?
- What attributes describe me?
- If I were to mentor a group of people, who would they be and why?
- If I were to go on vacation, where would I choose to go and why?
- If I were to go into a new venture, what would I do and why?
- If money was no limitation, what career or business would I like to be involved in and why?
Your answers to these questions could help clarify your passions. You may find it helpful to ask a few of your friends to give you a list of the attributes they see in you. You may find that some of the things they identify in you, you may have identified already in your personal analysis. This will serve as confirmation and encouragement to focus your attention in working on your strengths.
The things that you find similar in both your personal research coupled with your feedback you get from others will solidify your confidence and lead you to embrace your unique characteristics.
Passion gives you focus. When you concentrate all your efforts into on specific area, or a small group of related areas of expertise, the results are more effective and satisfying.
It is advisable for one to know a little about several things but to be an expert in one area. When you focus on developing and becoming an expert in one area, you position yourself as an expert to a group of people that will listen to you and be willing to buy from you the solution you offer them.
Passion is energy. The more you focus on growing in the areas that motivate and inspire you, the more effective, productive and vibrant your life will be!
De-clutter, Prioritize and Enjoy Life!
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How to Organize Your Life and Be Happy
With the plethora of benefits from the information age, the monster of “busyness” crept in so subtle causing almost everyone in the planet to conform to a lifestyle of work around the clock!
We now face a huge battle to regain our freedom, enjoy work-free weekends and live a lifestyle of simplicity. This can be a tremendous challenge for people who work from home to separate life and work.
What can you do to take charge of your life again and have time to stop and smell the roses?
Here are some simple steps that you can take to accomplish just that!
1. Set Parameters
Establish a system that guides your daily routine. Follow a daily schedule of what you want to live out your life throughout the day. Set a specific time twice daily to check your emails and voice mails, for example, this could be at 11AM and 4PM. If you do this, inform the people you work with or your clients of your new organization to make your day more productive and free of interruptions.
To be even more productive, you may want to consider hiring a virtual assistant to help you with office work and check your emails filtering the ones that are most important for you to reply or work on.
2. Create a Master To-Do List and Prioritize It
Make a list of all the things you need to do, from mailing payments, to writing that book that you have been wanting to for years! Each evening, go through the list and select the items that you will work on the following day. This will help save you time that could go wasted the next morning when you are trying to figure out where to put your attention and efforts in for the day.
Select the top three or four items from the list that require the utmost attention and need to be complete with urgency. Of these three or four items, prioritize the list. Work on the most difficult tasks first.
3. Close Shop on the Weekends
You may be thinking that you just could not do that. However, you will be surprised how people will respect your privacy and established policies when you inform them and stick to your guns. Of course, there could be incidents that emergencies could occur, depending on the type of work you do. Still, even for this, you could be creative and figure out a way to have someone trained to put out fires for you on the weekends.
One of the hardest things for business owners to do is to turn off their cell phones on the weekends. However, this is vital to maintain a healthy balanced family life by nurturing the relationship with your loved ones.
4. Take Mini-Vacations
There is no need to wait for an entire year to take time off. You can practice taking mini-vacations two to three times per year to recharge and nurture your family life. Search online in your local area to learn about activities that may be free or low-cost. Sometimes we want to see the world outside the area where we live, when we could have some good places to visit and have fun locally!
Adding structure to your life will relieve unnecessary stress, increase your productivity and improve your connection with those you love most!
